I've often thought, if only policy-makers truly understood what infants are like – how small and completely dependable they are for ever

BIG news! The Breeding Ground is now Bringing Up Family! The new name is descriptive of our goal: provide parents resources they need to better (i.e. bring u...

HELLO everyone!!! How I've missed you during maternity leave. I have SO much to share. But first, I have to tell you about an important event coming this wee...

Advocating for paid leave at work can be incredibly intimidating. So I am thrilled to have Courtney Fanning, the Marketing Manager at MojoTech, share her suc...

©2017 Ashia Ray Photography (www.ashiaray.com) PARENTS OF THE U.S. For this Parents of the U.S. interview, I’m thrilled to bring you the brilliantly talented...

I fell in love with this article when it was originally published back in July, so I was beyond thrilled when its author, Avra Siegel, said we could re-post ...

A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE LETTER A change.org petition brought to my attention that Starbucks (perhaps you’ve heard of it?) does not offer paid leave to new ...

PARENTS OF THE U.S. This interview is part of our Parents of the U.S. initiative. Its goal is to create awareness of the need to change workplace policies, l...

Today I am excited to bring you an interview with Greg Landsman, who helped lead a successful — and historic — campaign in Cincinnati, Ohio to provide high-q...

PARENTS OF THE U.S. I’m so excited to share with you a new initiative for the The Breeding Ground in 2017. It’s called called Parents of the U.S., and its go...

Investing. We know it’s important to saving and (hopefully) making money. But did you know it can also be an effective way to advocate for family supportive w...

WE’RE PREGNANT When my husband, Chris, and I decided to have a baby, we didn’t really think about how our employers would react. However, once we had a confi...

A CRAPPY SITUATION Does this scenario sound all too familiar? You’re out and about with your diaper-wearing-kid who does what diaper-wearing-kids do: poops. ...

Girls on the Run Greater Cincinnati recently expanded its maternity leave policy. Executive Director Mary Gaertner explains why. EMPOWERING GIRLS BY EMPOWERI...

Over twenty years ago, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was established in an attempt to promote equal employment opportunities for both men and women...

HOW MY STORY BEGAN I am one of the millions of workers in the United States without paid family leave. Like so many others, I didn’t know this or the hard tr...

NPR #DELIVERSCHANGE WITH ITS NEW STRETCHED SERIES This may be some of my favorite NPR programming yet (which is saying a lot, because I love me some NPR)! As...

WORDS MATTER Consider this from the fantastic Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business*: "The words we use reflect and reinforce deep assumptions ...

Dayton, Ohio was the first city in Ohio to pass paid parental leave. And recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Mayor of Dayton (rock star and all-a...